Christopher Murney
Birthday: Born in 1943-07-20 in Narragansett, Rhode Island, USA
Deathday: Alive
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Christopher Murney (born July 20, 1943) is an American actor and vocal artist. He is the father of singer and actress Julia Murney. Murney attended several universities before picking up several undergraduate degrees (in Business Administration, Speech, and in Drama), and one graduate level degree (Master of Fine Arts in Theatre from Pennsylvania State University). Murney has worked on the stage, in television series, and in movies. In television, he appeared as Buck Miller in 1994 and in 2001 on the soap opera One Life to Live, as Buddy in 1977 The San Pedro Beach Bums, and starred as Mackie Bloom in the first three seasons of Remember WENN. In the movies, Murney has appeared in such films as 1985's The Last Dragon as Eddie Arcadian, 1986's Maximum Overdrive, 1987's The Secret of My Success, 1990's Loose Cannons, and in 1991's Barton Fink. He played Hanrahan in the 1977 film Slap Shot, where he beats up Paul Newman on the ice. His voice can be heard as Chester Cheetah for Cheetos and most recently (2006) in the popular video games, as Dwayne from VCPR New World Order talk radio in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories by Rockstar Games, and as Black Garius, the bad guy, in Neverwinter Nights 2, and as various characters in Red Dead Revolver. Description above from the Wikipedia article Christopher Murney, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
TV Credits
Kate & Allie
Character:
Kate & Allie is an American television situation comedy which ran from March 19, 1984, to May 22, 1989. Kate & Allie first aired on CBS as a midseason replacement series and only six episodes were initially commissioned, but the favorable response from critics and viewers alike easily convinced CBS to commit to a full season in the fall of 1984. The series was created by Sherry Coben....
M*A*S*H
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The 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital is stuck in the middle of the Korean war. With little help from the circumstances they find themselves in, they are forced to make their own fun. Fond of practical jokes and revenge, the doctors, nurses, administrators, and soldiers often find ways of making wartime life bearable....
Ed
Character: Chester Jacinski
After his wife leaves him and he's fired from his job at a high-profile New York city law firm, Ed Stevens moves back to his small hometown of Stuckeyville where he buys the local bowling alley and attempts to win the heart of his high school crush....
The Civil War
Character: Elisha Hunt Rhodes
A documentary on the American Civil War narrated by Ken Burns, covering the secession of the Confederacy to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln....
Kojak
Character: Flarrety
A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City....
The Equalizer
Character: Rudy Bagler
Robert McCall is a former agent of a secret government agency who is now running his own private crime fighting operation where he fashions himself as "The Equalizer." It is a service for victims of the system who have exhausted all possible means of seeking justice and have nowhere to go. McCall promises to even out the odds for them....
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character: Larry
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, ...
The San Pedro Beach Bums
Character: Buddy
Five friends since high school decide to share a houseboat in beautiful southern California. Charming Buddy is their leader, Boychick the ladies man. Stuf believes big is beautiful, Dancer is a fidgety type and kind Moose lifts weights....
Remember WENN
Character: Mackie Bloom
The personal and professional lives of the staff of fictional Pittsburgh radio station WENN in the early 1940s, before and during World War II....
From Here to Eternity
Character: Cpl. Lewis
The lives of the men and families of G Company, 24th Infantry Division, United States Army, on the eve of the attack on Pearl Harbor....
Miami Vice
Character: ATF Agent Wilson
The story of the Miami Police Department's vice squad and its efforts to end drug trafficking and prostitution, centered on the unlikely partnership of Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs - who first meet when Tubbs is undercover in a drug cartel....
Movie Credits
Barton Fink
Character: Detective Deutsch
A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood....
Jacobo Timerman: Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number
Character: Colonel Rossi
An Argentinian newspaper publisher is imprisoned by his government for dissent....
The Last Dragon
Character: Eddie Arkadian
A young man searches for the "master" to obtain the final level of martial arts mastery known as the glow. Along the way he must fight an evil martial arts expert and rescue a beautiful singer from an obsessed music promoter....
The Secret of My Success
Character: Barney Rattigan
Brantley Foster, a well-educated kid from Kansas, has always dreamed of making it big in New York, but once in New York, he learns that jobs - and girls - are hard to get. When Brantley visits his uncle, Howard Prescott, who runs a multi-million-dollar company, he is given a job in the company's mail room....
Last Exit to Brooklyn
Character: Paulie
A gallery of characters in Brooklyn in the 1950s are crushed by their surroundings and selves: a union strike leader discovers he is gay; a prostitute falls in love with one of her clients; a family cannot cope with the fact that their daughter is illegitimately pregnant....
The Charmkins
Character: (voice)
The Charmkins is a television film based on an early 1980s toyline by Hasbro, which was broadcast on October 25, 1983....
You Can't Go Home Again
Character: Milliken
An adaptation of Thomas Wolfe's literary classic, telling of the struggles of a young writer determined to be a success in New York's literary world of the 1920s, his married lover, and the brilliant editor who sees him as a blossoming genius. The story parallels the life of Wolfe himself and his affair with stage designer Aline Bernstein....
Chicago 10
Character: Meany / Oklepek 1 / Reporter 1 (voice)
Archival footage, animation and music are used to look back at the eight anti-war protesters who were put on trial following the 1968 Democratic National Convention....
Where Are the Children?
Character: Lenny Baron
In Cape Cod, Missy and Michael, the two children of Nancy Eldridge, are kidnapped by a man who has disturbing intentions for them. Local police chief Ed Coffin wrongfully suspects that Nancy is behind the disappearances....
Found Money
Character: Warren Masterson
Two former bank employees, executive Dick Van Dyke, forced into early retirement by a computer, and guard Sid Caesar, unceremoniously dismissed before his pension comes due, concoct a computerized scheme to steal from the rich (i.e. the bank) and give to the poor with anonymous checks (money accessed from inactive accounts) to average do-gooders....
Way Off Broadway
Character: Mr. Kaufman
Way Off Broadway is the story of five friends who, frustrated by the abrupt juxtaposition of being successful artists on the university level to poor struggling artists in New York City, take a crash course in life as they explore the dynamic of conflict in friendship involving sex, love, failure and betrayal....
Kent State
Character: Maj. Jones
Dramatization of the four days of events leading up to the historic tragedy at Kent State University in May 1970, during the confrontation between National Guardsmen and students staging antiwar demonstrations....
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
Character: Dispatcher
In New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. Even if it's paid, how could they get away?...
Grace Quigley
Character: max Putnam
Grace Quigley is nearing the end of her life, living alone in her New York apartment. On the day she's being evicted, she witnesses a murder being committed by a top hit-man, Seymour Flint. She proposes to blackmail him into killing her, however, she has one or two friends she wants him to get rid of first....
Maximum Overdrive
Character: Camp Loman
When a comet passes close to the earth, machines all over the world come alive and go on homicidal rampages. A group of people at a desolate truck stop are held hostage by a gang of homicidal 18-wheelers. The frightened people set out to defeat the killer machines ... or be killed by them....
The Passing Season
Character: Tom
When his hockey career comes to a sudden end, Sam returns to his hometown and tries to escape into an earlier, simpler time in his life....
The Equalizer - The Movie: Blood & Wine
Character: Rudy Bagler
Robert McCall is forced to work with a former terrorist turned monk by the name of Joseph Heiden(Telly Savalas), whom he despises and mistrusts, on a deadly mission in New York....
Slap Shot
Character: Hanrahan
To build up attendance at their games, the management of a struggling minor-league hockey team signs up the Hanson Brothers, three hard-charging players whose job is to demolish the opposition....
Murder by the Book
Character: Lt. Greenberg
Mild-mannered mystery writer D. H. Mercer has become so immersed in his material that his creation, hard-boiled private eye Biff Deegan, constantly appears to him as a hallucination. Intent on getting rid of Biff, and replacing him with a more civilized detective, Mercer soon finds himself in a genuine mystery involving art fraud, murder, and a beautiful lady in peril....
The San Pedro Bums
Character: Buddy
Pilot for the short-lived TV series centers on five rough-and-tumble guys living on a leaky boat where they try to collar a gang of waterfront toughs after a robbery of which their buddy was the victim....
The Country Girl
Character: Larry
Frank Elgin's career in the theater is all washed up — but his friend Bernie thinks he can make a comeback, as long as his wife Georgie doesn't interfere....
The One and Only Phyllis Dixey
Character: Jack Tracy
Aspiring dancer Phyllis Dixey makes her name as a stripper....
Cafe Society
Character: Frank Frustinsky
New York 1952. Mickey Jelke inherits a big sum of money and spends his nights in Manhattan, painting the city red. Night after night, he can be found in one Broadway bar or the other, in the company of disreputable persons like pimps and prostitutes. One day,a shady cop, aided by Mickey's own girlfriend, Patricia, decides to accuse him of running a prostitution network. A scandal breaks out....